Ottmar mergenthaler



(No Model.)

O.MERGENTHALER. LINOTYPE MAGHINE.

No. 539,993. Patented May 28, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFFICE.

OTTMAR MERGENTHALER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

LlNOTYPE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,993, dated May 28, 1895.

Application filed March 27, 1895. Serial No. 543,377. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern; parts are united by screws 1) and passing Be it. known that I, OTTMAR MERGENTHA- through the cap plate and the liners into the 50 LER, of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have body plate. The liner is preferably fixed invented a new and useful Improvement in immovably in position. The liner 6 how- 5 Linotype-Machines, of which the following is ever, is arranged to slide endwise toa limited a specification. extent and to this end it is provided as shown My invention has reference to what are in Fig. 3 with a longitudinal slot b for the 5 known aslinotype machines in which the type passage of the screw and with longitudinal metal slugs or bars are' cast, each having on ribs or lips b seated in corresponding grooves 10 the edge, the type characters to print a line, in the cap and body plates to preventitfrom and casting in a mold against a line of matshifting laterally. By sliding this liner endrices temporarily assembled or composed wise, the length of the slot or mold cell may 60 against the .front of the mold. In the spebe varied toa considerable extent. By tightcial form herein shown, the invention is inening the screw b the liner may be pinched tended more particularly for application to tightly so as to remain in position under orthe ,Mergenthaler machine such as repredinary circumstances, but as extreme accusented in Letters Patent of theUnited States, racy in the length of the slug is desired, I 65 No. 436,532, dated September 16, 1890. propose to use in connection with the liner,

The object of the invention is to admit of adjustable or interchangeable supports to dethe mold proper being varied in length to termine this position. In the most simple produce lines corresponding to the width of form these will consist of a series of pins D difierent columns or pages. such as shown in Fig. 4 having at one end a In the drawings, Figurel is a front view of neck or tenon to fit into a hole 11 in the end one 'of my improved molds inserted in the of the liner. A lineris pushed inward to the carrying wheel or disk, as in the Mergenthaler desired position and the pin inserted in and machine. Fig. 2 is the front elevation of behind it as shown in Fig. 2, after which the the mold. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of mold is inserted into the disk so that the the adjustable liner forming the end of the pin will hear at its outer end against the wall mold-cell. Fig. 4 is a view showing the of the mortise or slot into which the mold is means of adjusting the molds to dilferent inserted. As the pin forms an unyielding lengths. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on the line support between the end of the liner and the 5 5 of Fig. 2. wall of the mold disk, it is obviously impos- 80 In the drawings, Arepresents the mold disk sible for the liner to be forced back out of or wheel; B, the mold proper, removably seposition. cured in a mortise in the disk, as usual, by It will be manifest that any other devices screws 0. of an equivalent character known to the me- The mold consists of a lower body plate I), chanic can be used for giving support to the 85 a cap plate I) and two intermediate space liner, the essence of the invention residing plates or liners b and b seated between the in a liner movable endwise and combined ends of the other parts for the double purwith means for securing it in different posipose of keeping them spaced accurately apart tions. to the required distance and of forming the Having thus described my invention, what 90 two ends of the intermediate mold cell or slot I claim is If. This cell extends as usual through the 1. An improvement in linotypes, a slotted mold from front to rear and is simply a slot, mold having one end of its slot formed by a the internal dimensions of which correspond longitudinally adjustable liner. exactly with the body of the linotype or print- 2. In a linotype machine, the mold consist- 5 ing slug to be formed therein. The several ing of the body and cap plates, the intermediate liners one of which is movable endwise I In testimony whereof I hereunto set my and the connecting screws substantially as hand,this 19th day of March, 1895, in the [0 described. presence of two attesting witnesses.

3. In alinotype machine the slotted mold 5 provided with a slidingiiner to vary thelength OTT. MERGENTI'IALER.

of the slot and with a removable support to Witnesses: maintain the liner in position, said elements FREDERICK A. ISHAM,

combined substantially as described. ISAIAH VosBURGH. 

